BERLIN: SO/BERLIN DAS STUE

Our hotel, SO/ Berlin Das Stue, was a boutique establishment adjacent to the zoo and a large park known as the Tiergarten. We enjoy boutique hotels for their smaller size and interesting design elements, and this one certainly met our expectations. Notably, it was originally the Royal Copenhagen Danish Embassy, constructed in the 1930s but left vacant during WWII. It was converted into a hotel around 2008. The hotel is stylish and the staff were attentive. Berlin is a large city and the downside to the hotel not being centrally located was that we ended up walking a lot or we frequently took cabs. Uber is not available in Germany. The bright side to all our walking was that we got to enjoy the Tiergarten, which is truly a wondrous urban park and we got to burn a few extra calories to pay it forward for our next meal!